I reckon it is, one can be bought here for less than $100 so I would imagine 
that a Zoom H1 would be far cheaper in the states, the last one I bought 
included the accessories pack which has an AC adapter, USB cable, Tripod and 
Microphone Stand adapter along with a windscreen.


> On 21 Oct 2015, at 3:41 AM, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> Is the zoom h1 still affordable?
> /A
>> 18 okt. 2015 kl. 16:01 skrev Dane Trethowan <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> The fact is that the Olympus recorders - DM Series I’m thinking of in 
>> particular here - are in a different league to this recorder.
>> 
>> The H6 obviously doesn’t have Voice guidance so you’d have to learn how to 
>> navigate though - given my experience with Zoom products - I doubt whether 
>> this would be too difficult a task.
>> 
>> It should be remembered that the voice guidance on Olympus products is far 
>> from perfect anyway, this has been pointed out to the list many times.
>> 
>> The price is another factor when thinking about the H6, its a recorder 
>> really designed for production purposes, what I appreciate of course but for 
>> some it may be total overkill.
>> 
>> I kept the Zoom H1 for 2 very good reasons, quick start - starts recording 
>> at the press of a button - and ease of use - just not much to the recorder 
>> at all -.
>> 
>> The H1 lacks a fancy feature set but if you’re just recording and want a 
>> damn good recording a low price then its a very good choice well worth 
>> considering in my view, I know of people who use the H1 for all sorts of 
>> bits and pieces, from live recording to logging to plain old dictation.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 19 Oct 2015, at 12:54 AM, john riehl <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> This recorder sounds good – the question I have is, how accessible are all 
>>> these features? The DM family of Olympus recorders have talking voice 
>>> guidance which makes most of their features easily accessible and 
>>> programmable. Having all of these features on the Zoom H6 
>>> 
>>> Is worthless if you can’t access them as a blind user. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane 
>>> Trethowan
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 9:49 AM
>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List
>>> Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone System 
>>> H6
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think the review I just sent to the list pretty well sums it up, any 
>>> higher sampling frequency’s etc then may as well cary a battery pack about 
>>> with you <smile>.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 19 Oct 2015, at 12:27 AM, Hamit Campos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Ah then yeah you're right. But then again they aren't really processing 
>>>> much after all. They don't really run fully loaded software like an OS or 
>>>> something like Sound Forge. All though 1 has to wander what they could be 
>>>> made to do even with a CPU like that of an IOS device. I can't think of 
>>>> nothing, but I'm sure the companies would.
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane 
>>>> Trethowan
>>>> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 12:28 AM
>>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <[email protected]>
>>>> Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone System 
>>>> H6
>>>> 
>>>> Yep, I was talking about CPU power, for what they are - audio wise - all 
>>>> those little recorders are beauties.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/18/2015 3:23 PM, Hamit Campos wrote:
>>>>> True that. If you mean CPU power. How ever, audio wise? Well the Zoom H6 
>>>>> and the older H4N sound to me as good and sadly along with this as hissy 
>>>>> as the realtech audio on my old Enspireon 530 S desktop. Now you are 
>>>>> correct about the DMs. But the LS the higher you go the better. The 14 
>>>>> sounds as cool as the 100. Very pro. No flor noise.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane 
>>>>> Trethowan
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 11:22 PM
>>>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <[email protected]>
>>>>> Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone 
>>>>> System H6
>>>>> 
>>>>> We have to remind ourselves that Zoom and Olympus recorders don't have 
>>>>> the processing power of a Personal Computer or even an iPhone <smile>.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 10/18/2015 2:18 PM, Hamit Campos wrote:
>>>>>> True that.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dane 
>>>>>> Trethowan
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 10:56 PM
>>>>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone 
>>>>>> System H6
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Still, plenty enough flexibility for most situations.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 10/18/2015 1:28 PM, Hamit Campos wrote:
>>>>>>> Yeah no the H6 is back to 96 KHZ.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>>>>>>> Dane Trethowan
>>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 8:40 PM
>>>>>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone
>>>>>>> System H6
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Yeah, I don't think the Zoom H6 goes up to 192KHZ sampling frequency, 
>>>>>>> interesting as the Zoom H1 does however the H1 only supports 2 channel 
>>>>>>> recording so that may account for something.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 10/18/2015 11:37 AM, Hamit Campos wrote:
>>>>>>>> Isn't this thing epic? You can hook 6 mikes to it. I guess you can do 
>>>>>>>> 6 different tracks. Yeah you know where I'm going, I'd then make them 
>>>>>>>> 5.1 surround. There's a new 1 called the F8 that will take 8  mikes. 
>>>>>>>> Which means 7.1. Oh and what makes that 1 even more epic, is that's 
>>>>>>>> the first I've heard of anyways from Zoom that will do 192 thousand 
>>>>>>>> KHZ. Way too epic dude. Too bad that 1 is $1200 US.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>>>>>>>> Dane Trethowan
>>>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 5:07 PM
>>>>>>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> Subject: Zoom H6 Handy Recorder with Interchangeable Microphone
>>>>>>>> System
>>>>>>>> H6
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> My Birthday isn’t all that far away, always an excuse - if you’re able 
>>>>>>>> - to treat yourself so thought that the Zoom Handy recorder linked to 
>>>>>>>> below might be just the thing.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I have the Olympus recorders here along with my original Zoom H1, the 
>>>>>>>> Olympus recorders are fine but I do like the Zoom’s way of doing 
>>>>>>>> things a little better some times.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> In any case, the H6 will certainly take the audio experience I’ve had 
>>>>>>>> from the Zoom H1 a lot further.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/967366-REG/zoom_h6_handy_audio
>>>>>>>>> _
>>>>>>>>> recorder.html
>>>>>>>>> <http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/967366-REG/zoom_h6_handy_audi
>>>>>>>>> o
>>>>>>>>> _recorder.html>
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